Key Roles

Leadership

Director, Applied Energy Division, SLAC
Interim Chief Research Officer, SLAC
Co-Leader, SLAC Sustainability Research Initiative
Executive Committee, Battery 500
Chair, Leadership Board of the College of Arts & Sciences, Santa Clara University
Governance Board, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, JCESR (2019-2023)
Stanford Computer Science Department Strategic Planning Committee (2016-2017)
Commissioner, Utilities Advisory Commission, City of Palo Alto (2010-2016)
Member, Board of Directors, Materials Research Society (2013-2015)

DOE Roundtable, Foundational Science for Biopreparedness and Response (2022)
DOE National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory (2020-2022)
Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on Big Data for Advanced Manufacturing (2015-2018)
Chair, Green Photonics Symposium, SPIE (several years)
Associate member of National Academies Panel on Federal Statistics, Multiple Data Sources, and Privacy Protection (2017)
Co-General Chair, ACM SenSys Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (2016)
Co-Chair (2014) and Member (2011), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory–Stanford University Energy Task Force

Presented testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy (2017)
Presented testimony on the challenges and opportunities of the Internet of Things to the California State Assembly Select Committee on Emerging Technologies (2015)
Keynote speaker at International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2015), “Disruptive engineering and societal impact”
Speaker at TedX Cupertino High School (2015), “So, you want to change the world?”
TechCode Distinguished Speaker presentation (2015), “Trends in Artificial Intelligence”

Co-Instructor, Spark Seminar, Fair Distribution of Electric Power One Microgrid at a Time, Santa Clara University (2023)
Co-Instructor, CS320: Value of Data and AI, Stanford University (2020-2022)